Henrik Bennetsen

Henrik is the chair of Metaverse U. He is also research director at Stanford Humanities Lab. For the past year and a half he has been the head of the Lifesquared research project. The idea is to explore building a 3D immersive archive of the art of Lynn Hershman inside the virtual world of Second Life. The work was recently shown at The Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal and is planned for exhibition the SFMOMA in 2008. In Fall 2006 he was a part of the Stanford course The Human and The Machine that used Second Life as a teaching tool. Henrik is Danish and has a MSc. In Media Technology and games from the IT University of Copenhagen and a BSc. in Medialogy from Aalborg University. Before his return to the world of academia Henrik was a professional musician and still has a strong side interest in creative self expression augmented by technology.